Professional Development Planning

90 minute 1:1 sessions

Are you at a point of change in your creative career, or do you feel stuck and want to make changes? A Professional Development Planning session gives you the space to step back, review your priorities and devise a route forward to get to where you want to be.

How does PDP work?
PDP is a broad, holistic approach that allows you to take account of how your creative practice intersects with your personal life and earning a living. In a 90 minute session with a skilled PDP Guide (aka coach) you will discuss your current situation, your future goals and identify opportunities for moving forward, as well as exploring what is holding you back – and how you can address this. The Guide’s role is to ask questions that help you clarify your thinking and set achievable objectives, but it is you set your objectives and time-scales.

What will you get?
• A 90 minute one to one discussion with an experienced Guide who has extensive knowledge of the literature sector for creative writers.
• A stepped action plan for achieving your goals.
• Follow-up emails with information and links to useful resources and services.
• A further email three weeks later to see how you are progressing with the first steps you set for yourself.

Who can benefit from a session?
Writers at all stages of their creative careers have found a PDP session very useful. The PDP Guides are writers themselves and understand the pressures of balancing creative work with other professional and personal concerns/areas.


Acknowledgement
Spread the Word would like to acknowledge the work on professional development planning undertaken by literaturetraining and in particular the handbook Professional Development Planning by CPD specialist Jude Page (literaturetraining, 2007) available to download from www.literaturetraining.com

How to book a session:
Please email annette@spreadtheword.org.uk with your contact details including a telephone number. Please note: a PDP session is not recommended if you have recently experienced personal crisis such as a bereavement or separation; a PDP session doesn’t offer feedback on your creative writing.

Tuesdays 23 February and Tuesday 30 March 2010
Coaches: Eva Lewin*/ Saradha Soobrayhen**

Spread the Word
77 Lambeth Walk
London, SE11 6DX
Tube: Lambeth North

£110/ £70

* Eva Lewin has worked as a Professional Development Planning guide for organisations and private clients since 2007 and is currently Writer Development Manager at Spread the Word.

 

**Saradha Soobrayen is a freelance editor, creative arts mentor and action learning set facilitator. Saradha is the Poetry Editor of Chroma: a LGBT Literary Arts Journal, providing editorial advice and manuscript appraisals. She received an Eric Gregory Award in 2004. She writes poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction.

Training: Action Learning Set Facilitator training (Institute of Leadership & Management/Ruth Cook) and Professional Development Planning (Literaturetraining/Jude Page)